LT, I know..I know...but sometimes when I'm at work and the cafeteria is closed and it's about 2:30 and I'm falling asleep at my desk, I have to break the glass and go instant because starbucks is a 30 minute round trip.

The universe is trying to tell you that instant coffee is for people who drive Buick LeSabres and are waiting outside Lowe's for it to open on a Saturday morning accompanied by a tiny woman in a polyester pantsuit with a white purse.

About a year ago someone emailed me your post, "1977 JCPenney Walk Down Memory Lane" and was looking for it again for a good laugh. So that's how I found your blog. You are hysterical. Thanks for the laughs!

I have a box of Folgers bags - kinda like tea bags, only with coffee - for when my parents visit. More expensive, but probably less messy. I work for a law firm that gives us good free coffee (Keurig machine). It's one of the benefits they don't tell you about when hiring and probably doesn't cost them that much in terms of the total bottom line, and yet it can make up for so much.